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Protecting the Global Civilian from Violence - UN Discourses and Practices in Fragile States (Paperback)
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Protecting the Global Civilian from Violence - UN Discourses and Practices in Fragile States (Paperback)
Series: Global Politics and the Responsibility to Protect
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This book reveals why the UN is more successful than unilateral
great powers in protecting civilians from violence, and focuses on
the discourse, development and consequences of UN peacekeeping.
Analysing statistics of state fragility and fatalities of violence,
it reveals that the UN has managed to save tens of thousands of
lives with its peacekeeping: a surprising statistic given the media
consensus about the UN's powerlessness and inefficiency. Using
computer-assisted discourse analysis of resolutions from the UN
Security Council, 1993-2019, the book offers data that describe the
character and development of UN approach to the protection of
civilians from violence. It then links the data to the statistics
of conflict fatalities and state fragility to reveal, by means of
qualitative and quantitative analysis, when, where, how and why the
UN has been successful at protecting civilians. Two reasons for the
UN's success are highlighted in the book as being statistically
most significant. First, the organization offers local ownership to
peaceful solutions by considering conflicting parties as the
primary agents of protection. Second, the UN approach is much less
power-oriented than unilateral approaches by the great powers:
protection for the UN does not mean deterrence or destruction, but
rather, support for local protectors of civilians. However, strong
great power influence on such operations tends to weaken UN's
ability to save lives. This book will be of much interest to
students of humanitarian intervention, peacekeeping, human rights
and International Relations in general.
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